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thedeadhaji
39489 Posts
I was just looking for the chaoslauncher thread (the original one) and entered "chaos" as the keyword. Now, while I got a bunch of threads pertaining to the launcher, I didn't get the one I wanted.
However, when I changed the keyword to "chaoslauncher", I got the thread I was looking for.
So the search function works by looking for whitespace delimited strings rather than by umm, how would I describe it... like, strings, anywhere. I understand that this is because of CPU usage, and if we searched for "fuck", it would have to search through many more string 'regions' to find stuff like motherfucker, buttfuck, fucking, fucktoss, etcetc and could be a burden.
So as a compromise I was wondering if the search could be modified slightly to look for string regions that follow whitespaces rather than ones that are both preceded and followed by whitespaces.
The reason for this, is that "chaos" would return both "choas" and "chaoslauncher", "muta" would return "muta", "mutalisk", "mutalisks", etc. Right now, conjugations of verbs, plurals of nouns, and other derivatives of basic search components dont come up in the search results. The consequence of this is that (a) it becomes cumbersome to search, then re-search, etcetc (b) it should somewhat help the users who search for "muta", and find nothing but had they searched for "mutalisk", they would have gotten the threads they were looking for. Similar things would happen with "micro" vs "microing", "hotkey", "hotkeys", "hotkeying", etcetc. I'm sure pple could come up with many other examples as well.
Then again I can't deny the merits of having an EXACT search like the one we have right now, when doing a search for a word that is relatively common (and occurs as a sort of a prefix to more words), so perhaps a checkbox for doing EXACT searches while having the more lenient search as the default would be a good compromise?
+ Show Spoiler +Take that Mani Kennigit Chill Fakesteve!! 
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is awesome32274 Posts
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is awesome32274 Posts
I think clearly the solution here is developing some kind of mind-reading search tool that one can implant into his own brain. After thinking of something it will automatically search for it.
Of course this tool will serve a double purpose. If a user posts for help without searching it would fry his brain.
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Aotearoa39261 Posts
or Proleague Final vs Proleague Finals (god that difference pissed me off -.-)
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Is proleague actually spelled proleauge in some places? Like in the UK or something?
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is awesome32274 Posts
lol he typoed that, its final vs finals
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Aotearoa39261 Posts
ya seriously try find me the SKT vs MBC final from 06, then the SKT KTF final from 05 etc
damn near impossible with all the title variations...
dont get me started about normal season
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Ok, title search will use wildcards now.
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how do you code this stuff so fast
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It's basically builtin to the database, just had to add a *. :p
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Kennigit
Canada19447 Posts
Don't give away your trade secrets like that. You have to maintain the illusion of mastery.
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Also, I can kill you with my brain.
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On June 24 2008 09:50 SonuvBob wrote:
Also, I can kill you with my brain.
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Aotearoa39261 Posts
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never thought of trying wildcards for the longest time I've been googling 'site:teamliquid.net searchterm'
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Zurich15328 Posts
On June 24 2008 10:16 CharlieMurphy wrote:
This food is problematic
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thedeadhaji
39489 Posts
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I was never able to find exactly what I was looking for with TL search. The google site search works for me.
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On June 24 2008 20:39 zatic wrote:Show nested quote +On June 24 2008 10:16 CharlieMurphy wrote:On June 24 2008 09:50 SonuvBob wrote:
Also, I can kill you with my brain. This food is problematic
ahahahahaha
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Good improvement, I remember i had such a hard time looking for the final games of past leagues 
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